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Trent Yesberg is enjoying his midweek trips to Addington. Last night his stable harness racing runners had a win (Foreman Fox), a second (Beautiful Crazy) and a third (Always A Diva) from three starters after claiming a winning double with Beautiful Crazy and Major Performer the previous week. That’s three winners in eight days – […]
The in-form Robertson stable will be out to continue impressive winning streaks with two of their recent “imports” at Addington this Friday night. The father-son combo of Peter and Mitchell Robertson line up Ward Lamon and Royal Belle, with the latter gunning for four in a row in Heat 2 of the new Metropolitan Tiara […]
In-form harness racing driver Sam Thornley looks to have at least two, maybe three, winning chances among his six drives at Addington on Wednesday. Ben From Accounts (Race 2 – $1.70) and Hungry Bronnie (Race 5 – $1.90) both opened as short-priced favourites while Don’t Tell Jenny is a $4.20 second pick in Race 6. […]
Sometimes Angela Boyd can’t believe what’s happened with her Girls On Tour syndicate this year. “We have just been so lucky.” The first horse she’s ever been involved in syndicating just happens to be star 2YO Tour Party and right now she and the Girls On Tour Syndicate are “having a blast”. The syndicate […]
An event to support popular harness racing couple Brooke and Robbie Close is being organised for Christchurch later this month. Brooke needs a kidney transplant and husband Robbie will be her donor, with the operation set down for November. To help them out a “Keeping Them Close” quiz night will be held at Spectators Bar, […]
After placing second on debut as a 2YO it seemed a formality that Hearts N Aces (Captaintreacherous) would win a race at short notice. In the end that elusive harness racing victory wouldn’t come for more than two years. But when he did win, he did it in style. In Friday’s Sweet Lou at Woodlands […]
Michael House’s about to start his bid to be a world champion. One of racing’s more colourful characters, the high profile Canterbury-based trainer is in Malta for the harness racing World Amateur Driving Championships which will be held this weekend. He will go head to head with 11 other international drivers from Austria, Belgium, USA, […]
It’s not often that races go to plan. But that’s exactly what happened with Radioactive Jaffa at Addington last night. “It went perfectly didn’t it?” says Radioactive Jaffa’s breeder, co-owner and trainer Russell Kennedy. “Wednesday meetings are made to order for him.” Starting off the unruly the Auckland Reactor 10-year-old was always going to get […]
Evergreen pacer American Me has been the big mover in this week’s Go Media New Zealand Trotting Cup rankings. The nine-year-old took out the IRT Spring Cup at Alexandra Park on Friday night in what was his fourth win in six starts since moving north to Matty White’s Clevedon stables. As a result of the […]
Classy mare and new mum Resolve’s (Andover Hall) re-appearance at the races, after a long spell away, will add plenty of interest to Sunday’s feature trot at Oamaru. The now eight-year-old, trained by Paul Nairn, is not only starting a new harness racing campaign but she’s returning to the Jasmyn’s Gift Fillies and Mares Stakes, […]
Races don’t come much more poignant than this. On Sunday, on his home track, the so-called “Mayor of Methven” Ricky May will attempt to train his first official winner in a race named after his late father. The inaugural Terry May Memorial is set to go at 1.43pm, with Ricky driving Blu Diamond, a Captain […]
After more than a year away from the races, What The Dragon is back. Last year the What The Hill gelding created quite an impression, winning four times in five races for trainer-driver Kyle Cameron. His last win was in the Winter Rewards at Addington last July. It was all looking so promising for a […]
In his first year as an open driver Sam Thornley is on some sort of winning streak right now. The 24-year-old has driven 20 harness racing winners since June 19, and had at least one winner every week for coming up 10 weeks, his latest being with Kotare Argent at Rangiora last Sunday. It’s a […]
After more than a year away, classy pacer Tact McLeod is set for a race day return at Addington next week. All going well the Mark Jones-trained pacer will line up in the Allied Security Group 3 Maurice Holmes Vase, one of the traditional lead-up races to the New Zealand Trotting Cup, at Addington next […]
Wilson House has a two point lead heading into the final four heats of the McMillan Equine Feeds New Zealand Junior Driver Championships at Ashburton on Sunday. House compiled 34 points in the opening three heats at Alexandra Park on Friday night courtesy of a fifth with Brienne in the opening heat, then a fourth […]
Prominent Otago breeder Lex Williams has praised his “incredible” broodmare Fleet’s Pocket following her recent death, aged 26. “She was the first horse I ever bought,” says Williams, “she was a lovely old mare and very well-natured. What she did was remarkable.” She produced 19 foals from 2004 – 2022. “Fifteen of them were winners […]
This weekend Kiwi star Dexter Dunn will be out to win one of the few big races to have eluded him during his highly successful stint in North America – the Hambletonian at The Meadowlands in New Jersey. A five-time USA Driver of the Year and 10-time New Zealand champion, Dunn partners with the Marcus […]
Two exciting three-year-olds will headline a formidable team from Kentuckiana Lodge at Addington tonight. With spring racing fast approaching, Cran and Chrissie Dalgety will line up five runners tonight, all to be driven by son Carter. Four of them are fresh up, with Franco Ankara ($1.55) and Asymmetric Return ($1.70) the most heavily fancied to […]
Warwick Roberts is hopeful he has a Rising Star on his hands. Rakero Maximus, who he trains and co-owns, produced a top effort fresh up at Addington on Sunday, winning the Betavet Thanks Clients and Industry Mobile Pace by nearly two lengths. It was Rakero Maximus’ first outing since January. “It was a great run […]
With less than two weeks to go before the opening heat, Regan Todd’s got his sights firmly fixed on the new Rising Stars at Addington. After a lengthy absence, the series is making a comeback with two $15,000 heats on Friday, July 31 and Friday, August 14 before a $30,000 final a week later (August […]
Riley Harrison has two factors in her favour heading into Friday’s Darren DeFilippi Memorial Handicap Trot at Addington (9.01pm). Not only is she the only driver in the race to have it won previously but she is also driving the highly-fancied Midnight Diamond for her employers Robert and Jenna Dunn. The six-year-old mare was unlucky […]
The career of brilliant multiple Group 1 winner Akuta (Bettor’s Delight) is over. The pacing millionaire has been plagued by injury in recent years, with trainer and part-owner Mark Purdon confirming that he will not race again. “We got him scanned at the end of June to determine if there was an injury or a […]
Talented northern junior driver Emily Johnson is heading to Europe tonight to link up with one of France’s top stables for the next three weeks. The visit is part of a programme tentatively called the “FRENZ Connection”. No formal agreement has been confirmed as yet though it’s been proposed that this will be the first […]
At 16-years-old Taylor Newton is about to take an important step along the way to fulfilling her harness racing dream. The teenager, who’s a member of Kumeu Kidz Kartz, has been selected to compete at the Queensland Mini Trot Championship at Albion Park in Brisbane on July 18, the same night as the champion Leap […]
